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JAPAN AND SOVIET HAIL PEACE PACT; Shigemitsu, at Ratification Ceremony in Tokyo, Sees Asian Peace Advanced 'Great Significance' Cited

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TOKYO, Dec. 12--Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu said today that he was convinced the restoration of Japan's relations with the Soviet Union would "contribute vastly to the peace of East Asia and the whole world."

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